{"id":3696,"date":"2015-07-08T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T08:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=3696"},"modified":"2016-10-25T14:33:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T06:33:07","slug":"h-h-lim-the-beginning-of-something-press-release","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/h-h-lim-the-beginning-of-something-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"H.H. Lim &#8211; The Beginning of Something &#8211; Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-av_section-142ff43b7600746a6e970fde5cf91c57 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-3696'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a title=\"EXHIBITIONS \u2013 CURRENT\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/exhibition-current\/\">CuRRENT<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a class=\"selected\" title=\"EXHIBITIONS \u2013 PAST\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/exhibition-current\/exhibition-past\/\">PAST<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a title=\"H.H. Lim \u2013 The Beginning of Something \u2013 Works\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/h-h-lim-the-beginning-of-something-works\/\">works<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a class=\"selected\" title=\"H.H. Lim \u2013 The Beginning of Something \u2013 Press Release\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/h-h-lim-the-beginning-of-something-press-release\/\">press release<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df{\nheight:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div '   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-family: open sans thin; font-size: 25px; line-height: 24px; letter-spacing: 1px; color: #333333;\">The Beginning of Something<br \/>\nH.H. Lim<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; color: #666666; text-align: justify;\">\n<p>We are very pleased to announce The Beginning of Something a solo exhibition by international contemporary artist H.H. Lim, to be held at Wei-Ling Contemporary this February.<\/p>\n<p>The eastern philosophical tradition tells us that life is nothing but a perpetual cycle of life and death. What in a specific moment begins, has already had an end in the past and sooner or later will end again, in an infinite cycle of impermanent existences.<\/p>\n<p>H.H. Lim\u2019s Beginning is set anywhere in this circle: it does not matter, after all, whether it is the beginning of an end or the end of a beginning, because every moment is essential as much as the other ones to the continuity of life. In this undefined instant, man puts the universal cyclic nature back inside the boundaries of one\u2019s own specific existence, keeping constant the balance between necessity and fulfillment, between temptation and completion.<\/p>\n<p>In dealing with this topic, Lim uses his customary language, taking his inspiration from the images that fill contemporary daily life; the expensive objects scattered randomly across the Wei-Ling Gallery\u2019s floor are the leading elements of a perpetual tension process towards possession, they are the fragile targets of the ephemeral passions of today\u2019s man.<\/p>\n<p>To the artist, this recurrent search of stimulation and pleasure resolves in what he himself calls a \u201cgrown-up game\u201d. The pleasure that man feels in using and then disposing of unnecessary goods, as well as the outcome of a consumerist society, can also be interpreted as the search for novelty and knowledge, similar to the one that pushes a baby to ignore a toy that he used to love as soon as he gets a new one into his hands. The artworks themselves become provocatively subjected to this logic of possession and abandonment and the drawings, dispersed so carelessly, as if they were the umpteenth leftovers of an alienated community, join the magnificent ornaments in a state of chaos, inducing the viewer, by contrast, to pay more attention to them and therefore to question their real significance.<\/p>\n<p>On the surface of the long canvas called Hard Rain, the flying helicopters are the mirror of our condition: one of external spectators and victims, of subject-object in the storm that shakes the world. Beaten by an unmerciful rain, we move forward, lost towards the hope of salvation, and as the young actor playing the lead character of the short-film Sunshine through the Rain by Akira Kurosawa, to whom Lim pays tribute with this work, we pursue a place which goes beyond space and time, where finally the circle will be broken and we will be given the comfort of an answer. This place is metaphorically represented by the roots of the rainbow, nothing but a sheer mirage, the glimpse of which the artist however impishly leaves us on the canvas.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Kedah, Malaysia, Lim has practiced art in Rome since the year 1976 and has remained since, finding himself continuously inspired by the city\u2019s energy. A Neo-conceptual artist with a disposition for colossal works, Lim is known to incorporate elements of everyday life into his works, which at times are recycled, repackaged and framed, taking on a different meaning and new life. In the past, Lim\u2019s conceptual works have consisted of paintings, installations, performance art as well as recorded video and sound.<\/p>\n<p>H.H. Lim believes that artists are missionaries, and we are the testimony of what is happening in our time, that the showing of ideas is like a calling, a mission, and that he is in need of a public, an audience, to enliven the artwork, as visitors animate the artwork or dead spaces.<\/p>\n<p>To date, the artist has shown widely in Asia, Europe and the United States and very recently having participated in the 55th Venice Biennale under the Cuban Pavilion as well as in the 6th Prague Biennale, both in the year 2013.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Beginning of Something features at Wei-Ling Contemporary from 17th February \u2013 31st March 2014.<br \/>\nWei-Ling Contemporary is located at G212 Ground Floor, The Gardens Mall, 59200, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Wei-Ling Contemporary is open Daily from 10am-9pm. Admission is free.<br \/>\nPlease call 0322601106\/0322828323 or email weiling.shaz@gmail.com for more information.<br \/>\nYou may also visit our website at www.weiling-gallery.com or our Facebook page at Wei-Ling Gallery.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a04e9a999f2af535624a76d569713c2e hr-short  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_hr  hr-center '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-9a4b51fdc01b8b13bd201ffe5054f031\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-9a4b51fdc01b8b13bd201ffe5054f031{\nheight:35px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-9a4b51fdc01b8b13bd201ffe5054f031 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_textblock  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/H.H.-Lim.pdf\"><strong>Click here to view H.H. Lim&#8217;s bio<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artribune.com\/2014\/03\/h-h-lim-da-roma-a-kuala-lumpur-una-personale-alla-galleria-wei-ling-contemporary-ragionando-sul-tempo-il-caos-gli-oggetti-e-limpermanenza\/exhibition-view-7\/\"><strong>The Beginning of Something by H.H. Lim in Art Tribune, Italy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.nst.com.my\/nation\/extras\/h-h-lim-s-art-with-a-difference-1.492876\"><strong>Interview with HH Lim about The Beginning of Something in The New Straits Times<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tbos-edge_001.jpg\"><strong>Read article in EDGE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tbos-ARTEeCRITICA-78.pdf\"><strong>Read article in ARTEeCRITICA 78<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CuRRENT\u00a0|\u00a0PAST works\u00a0|\u00a0press release The Beginning of Something H.H. Lim We are very pleased to announce The Beginning of Something a solo exhibition by international contemporary artist H.H. 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